Seeing and immediately understanding data is critical to an application's success. With Ubidots device agnostic cloud platform, sensor data becomes real-life insight into an environment and its controls.
In this tutorial, we will illustrate how to customize a widgets' settings to display custom text or an individual update.
- For the purpose of this tutorial we will be applying a "last reading date and time stamp" to know when the data last responded.
Step 1: Select the Widget's Settings
Step 2: Assign your requested fields or create your own with
- Assign any drop down input or input your own custom Text to Identify the widget more clearly.
- Or assign your own with content using the double brackets (Moustache) syntax from within the application's backend:
Assign: Text + ...
{{result_data}} –> The last value of the Variable
{{timestamp}} –> The timestamp of the last value received
{{context}} –> The context of the last value received
{{item_shared}} –> The name of the Device of the Variable
{{timeframe}} –> What's the timeframe configured for this widget (e.g. Hour, Day, etc)
{{operation}} –> What's the operation configured for this widget
{{unit}} –> Unit of the variable - see here to assign a unit of measure.
Step 3: Visualize your custom widget identifiers.
- return to your dashboard and refresh the browser to visualize any updates
Before:
After:
Now you can design and visualize the sensor data in the format and units that best fit the end-viewer's needs. For more in how to assign a custom unit to a Variable or sensor's data, have a look at the Add Units of Measure article in Ubidots' Help Center.